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So less than 30 days ago, sometime just after the first of the year, I was surfing the AA and US Airways websites. Checking on prices for June 2013. Kept showing up in the $700s/pp. Knew not to wait too long, but needed to wait for the old credit card cycle to cycle. Went to buy tix today and the price is teetering at $1000/pp!!! Any ideas as to what happened? and am I totally screwed?

Well you did the right procedure by going to the websites of the airlines. Do not rely on aggregator sites like Kayak, etc. The best day(#1) to book is on Tuesdays. Don't get mad but I contacted AA on the 2nd Tuesday of January late afternoon for low rate to Provo from Detroit. Was running $575. I call it a fluke, but snagged our 5 r/t tickets on a one stopper(shorty) 7 hrs for $391 p.p. and I said book it. Oh, I also had 5 AA air vouchers from last August Provo trip for $200 each. I got these by having my family being delayed by 3 hours at Miami Airport. . Case in point, when you have a mechanical problem with a plane, you have hangers to fix it in:"NOT ON THE TARMAC" ! I demanded(wanted $2000 for our time's worth, I start high) air credit vouchers for our inconvenience when I returned from our trip. So I ended up paying just $191 each for our upcoming mid-August two weeker to Provo for my family of 5. So keep checking. Be firm and persistent. DR. JIM

Roundtrip from Texas is notoriously high to anywhere in the Caribbean, so no, I'm not mad that you snagged great ticket prices!! Glad to hear it. And so thanks for the reminder to clear the cookies and I'll keep trying :)

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Keep checking. My family was teasing me a few months back when I was checking (almost daily) airfare prices. They were running over $800 every day EXCEPT for one day when the prices dropped to $580? You bet I booked them that day! Next day prices jumped back up to over $700 and my family stopped teasing me for being obsessive... Good luck!

We always check late Mondays and all day Tuesdays....don't know why, but it's cheaper here then.

And despo2007 is right. Clear, clear, clear. I never thought about it, until somebody posted this awhile back, but started clearing my stuff and it clears the playing field. Hey, I am not computer savey, I can seriously grow stuff, but technology is not my forte! And it's not over 'til it's over! Keep checking!

Do y'all find that all the airlines have these drastic variations or do some change more often than others? We are rather limited here. We used to always use AA but switched to US Air last summer and really enjoyed them much more than AA. I'll take either one for this trip if I can get the price back to where it was 30-45 days ago. As of today, they were running within $25 of each other, both close to $1000/pp for June. I have no problem with checking both airlines every day, but since I saw the price comparatively lower in Nov and Dec and then to find such a price jump today, I'm thinking the high numbers are here to stay.